Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can provide rapid, significant improvements in severe symptoms of several mental health conditions. ECT is used to treat: Severe depression, particularly when accompanied by detachment from reality (psychosis), a desire to commit suicide or refusal to eat.
DYMALLY, Mervyn Malcolm. Biography. A Caribbean immigrant, a longtime member of the California legislature, and the first black elected to statewide office in California, Mervyn Dymally represented a southern Los Angeles County district in the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years.
However, as shown by this list of 100 awfully good examples, oxymorons are also part of our everyday speech.  1 absent presence. (Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney) 2  alone together. 3  awful good.  beggarly riches. (Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John 1  Donne) bitter sweet.  brisk vacancy.